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MAN celebrates topping-out ceremony for battery factory in Nuremberg
After only one year of construction at the Nuremberg site, MAN Truck & Bus recently celebrated the topping-out ceremony for the new building dedicated to the large-scale production of batteries for fully electric trucks and buses. As early as April 2025, high-voltage batteries are to be produced industrially in Nuremberg on 17,000 m2. This will create nearly 350 jobs. MAN will thus be the first commercial vehicle manufacturer in Germany to start its own battery series production. The investment volume for the new building, including investments in logistics, infrastructure, building and production facilities, amounts to around 100 million euros.
Guests at the topping-out ceremony included the Bavarian Minister President Markus Söder, Nuremberg's Mayor Marcus König, MAN Truck & Bus CEO Alexander Vlaskamp, and the Chairman of the Works Council of the MAN Nuremberg site, Markus Wansch.
Alexander Vlaskamp: “The drives of the future are being created in Nuremberg. Here we are not only developing batteries, but in a few months we will also be manufacturing them in large series with the latest technologies. The topping-out ceremony is an important milestone for our company on the path to major transformation towards electromobility. And it is also a clear commitment from MAN to the business location of Bavaria and to Germany.”
Currently Small Series Production
Currently, battery packs for MAN's fully electric vehicles are already being produced in small series at the Nuremberg site. With the start of large-scale production, the small-series production area will gradually be converted to the development of the next battery generation as well as to battery refurbishment. From April 2025, the delivered modules will be used to form battery layers in the large series. These layers will be stacked to assemble the battery pack and then thoroughly tested.
Initially 50,000 Batteries per Year
On a 17,000 m2 area, over 50 manual and automated assembly stations and seven test stations for quality assurance will be installed. The installation of the first production facilities has already begun. From April 2025, up to 50,000 batteries per year will be built in an initial expansion phase. This capacity is expected to be expanded to up to 100,000 high-voltage batteries by 2030, depending on market developments. With a height of over 35 m, the new building is the highest production building at the site.
Ingo Essel, Head of the MAN site in Nuremberg: "Entering electromobility is a crucial step into the future for our site. We have decades of expertise in the development and production of engines, and now we also have the best conditions to establish ourselves as a competence center for alternative drive technologies."
State Supports with 30 Million Euros
The Free State of Bavaria supports the further development and research of battery technology with approximately 30 million euros. This made the integration of innovative laser welding cells possible, among other things. Laser welding is the most innovative, efficient, and gentle manufacturing technology in battery module construction. With a powerful 8 kW disk laser, robot-guided optics, and ultra-fine sensors, individual battery cells are electrically connected with high precision and quality. Together with the Technical University (TU) of Munich, MAN is researching the further development of this technology, which is to be used in a future battery generation.
Translated automatically from German.
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